Word: drew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...riot of swooping curves, the new American Center in Paris unmistakably bears the mark of its designer, California architect Frank Gehry. Gehry's first famous building was his Santa Monica home -- a modest Dutch colonial, transformed so provocatively with corrugated metal, glass and chain link fence that it actually drew gunfire from an irate neighbor. Ever since, Gehry has specialized in the tumbling, disjointed style known as deconstructivism. Though more conservative than his usual projects, the Paris building is still a characteristic and handsome achievement. Within this stylish envelope, the architect has accommodated a theater, a cinema, art and dance...
...drew nearer, few workers were certain of the exact date, but they could detect the quickening pace. Bernard Taylor, 84, was superintendent of a Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas, making PT-17 flight trainers. One day in November 1941, Taylor noted a harried congregation of high military brass outside his plant. Then he was called in by his boss, who declared, "You're in the glider business...
...task force consists of administrative and financial officials from the graduate schools, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the central administration. And that was what drew the ire of the union...
...also the concreteness of the field that drew him in, Schreiber says...
Despite the festive fund-raisers, however the donors' generosity did not often depend on the appeal of the politicians platforms. What drew the money from these contributors was the Kennedy name...